{"id":8126,"date":"2025-03-01T16:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=8126"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T15:45:33","slug":"icc-hangs-democracy-out-to-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2025\/03\/01\/icc-hangs-democracy-out-to-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC &#8216;Hangs Democracy Out to Dry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2020\/11\/01\/erdogans-move-toward-an-islamic-caliphate\/eye-on-the-middle-east-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) recent decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza is an underhanded effort to prevent the Jewish state from defending itself against Islamic terrorism.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>ICC &#8216;Hangs Democracy Out to Dry&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/icc-hangs-democracy-out-to-dry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel My Glory<\/a> | March 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>The International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) recent decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza is an underhanded effort to prevent the Jewish state from defending itself against Islamic terrorism. Palestinians and other enemies of Israel are increasingly resorting to lawfare, the weaponization of international law, to accomplish through specious legal proceedings what they have been unable to achieve on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/icc-hangs-democracy-out-to-dry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Criminal Court\u2019s (ICC) recent decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza is an underhanded effort to prevent the Jewish state from defending itself against Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,233],"tags":[234,54,171,65,14],"class_list":["post-8126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-middle-east","tag-friends-of-israel","tag-gaza","tag-geopolitics","tag-israel","tag-middle-east"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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